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258 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
In transferring this species to Passiflora it is necessary to adopt
a new name, as the names Passiflora floribunda and P. Andreana are
invalidated by earlier use.
The plant described as a variety (var. major} by Masters and
later as Tacsonia Andreana by Sodiro apparently differs from Karsten's
description of Rathea floribunda only in having larger flowers
with the tube more strongly dilated at the throat. The illustration
accompanying Sodiro's description is very similar to that given by
Karsten, the principal difference being the angular calyx tube.
Karsten's statement of the type locality is uncertain, nor is the
information on the type sheet of much assistance. There is no
positive evidence of the occurrence of this species outside of Ecuador;
the Purdie collection from Colombia cited as this by Masters belongs
to another species.
Subgenus XIII. TACSONIA
139. Passiflora Parritae (Mast.) Bailey, Rhodora 18: 156. 1916.
Tacsonia Parritae Mast. Gard. Chron. n. ser. 17: 218, 225. /. 34.
1882.
Passiflora salmonea Harms, Bot. Jahrb. 18: Beibl. 46: 11. 1894.
Stem angulate, glabrous or slightly tomentulous at the nodes,
dark reddish brown; stipules setaceous, 5 to 6 mm. long, remotely
glandular-serrulate; petioles up to 2 cm. long, bearing 2 to 4 inconspicuous,
sessile glands; leaves 5 to 7 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. between
tips of lateral lobes, 3-lobed about four-fifths their length (lobes
lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, acuminate, apiculate), subcuneate at
base, remotely denticulate, membranous, glabrous above, pilosulous
beneath; peduncles 12 to 14 cm. long; bracts ovate, about 7 mm.
long, 3 mm. wide (probably larger when developed), acute, apiculate,
glandular-serrulate, free to base, early deciduous; flowers orange or
salmon; calyx tube cylindric, 8 to 9 cm. long, ventricose and slightly
sulcate at base, glabrous; sepals oblong, 6 to 7 cm. long, 2.5 to 3 cm.
wide, obtuse, keeled, the keel broadly winged, about 1 cm. wide,
terminating in an awn 7 to 8 mm. long; petals oblong, slightly shorter
than the sepals, obtuse; corona minutely tuberculate; operculum
deflexed, recurved at margin; ovary ellipsoidal, sericeous.
TYPE LOCALITY: Department of Tolima, Colombia (type collected
by Parra [Parrital).
ILLUSTRATIONS: Gard. Chron. n. ser. 17: 225. /. 34. 1882; 111.
Hort. 35: pi. 41; Mutis, Icon. PL Ined. 26: pi. 38.